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Chapter 1. About this manual . . . . . . 1
Important Safety Information . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 2. Safety information . . . . . . 3
General safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Electrical safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Safety inspection guide . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Handling electrostatic discharge-sensitive
devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Grounding requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Safety notices (multi-lingual translations) . . . . . 6
Chapter 3. General information . . . . 29
Specications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Lenovo programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Accessing Lenovo programs on the Windows
7 operating system . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Accessing Lenovo programs on the Windows
8 operating system . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Additional information resources . . . . . . . 31
Chapter 4. General Checkout . . . . . 33
Problem determination tips . . . . . . . . . . 33
Chapter 5. Troubleshooting and
diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Basic troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Accessing Control Panel on the Windows 8
operating system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Troubleshooting procedure . . . . . . . . . . 36
Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Audio problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
CD problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
DVD problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Intermittent problems . . . . . . . . . . 41
Keyboard, mouse, or pointing device
problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Monitor problems. . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Networking problems . . . . . . . . . . 45
Option problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Performance and lockup problems . . . . . 48
Printer problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Serial port problems. . . . . . . . . . . 50
Software problems . . . . . . . . . . . 51
USB problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Lenovo Solution Center . . . . . . . . . 52
Chapter 6. Using the Setup Utility
program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Starting the Setup Utility program . . . . . . . 55
Viewing and changing settings . . . . . . . . 55
Using passwords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Password considerations. . . . . . . . . 56
Power-On Password . . . . . . . . . . 56
Administrator Password . . . . . . . . . 56
Hard Disk Password. . . . . . . . . . . 56
Setting, changing, and deleting a password . 56
Enabling or disabling a device . . . . . . . . 57
Selecting a startup device . . . . . . . . . . 57
Selecting a temporary startup device . . . . 57
Selecting or changing the startup device
sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Enabling ErP compliance mode . . . . . . . . 58
Changing the BIOS settings before installing a new
operating system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Exiting the Setup Utility program . . . . . . . 59
Chapter 7. Symptom-to-FRU Index . . 61
Hard disk drive boot error . . . . . . . . . . 61
Power Supply Problems . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Beep symptoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
POST error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Miscellaneous error conditions . . . . . . . . 63
Undetermined problems . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Chapter 8. Locations . . . . . . . . . 67
Locating connectors, controls, and indicators on
the front of your computer . . . . . . . . . . 67
Locating connectors on the rear of your
computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Locating major FRUs and CRUs . . . . . . 69
Looking up FRU information . . . . . . . 70
Locating parts on the system board . . . . 71
Chapter 9. Replacing FRUs . . . . . . 73
Adjusting the computer stand. . . . . . . . . 73
Removing the computer stand . . . . . . . . 73
Removing the computer cover . . . . . . . . 74
Opening and closing the system board shielding . 75
Opening the system board shielding . . . . 75
Closing the system board shielding. . . . . 76
Replacing the rear I/O shielding . . . . . . . . 78
Removing the rear I/O shielding . . . . . . 78
Installing the rear I/O shielding. . . . . . . 78
Replacing the hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . 79
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